news Mike Mann drops 50,000 domains

[charrisg]

Mike Mann and his company DomainMarket.com has dropped almost 50,000 domains in the past few months.


https://onlinedomain.com/2020/06/18/domain-name-news/mike-mann-drops-50000-domains/

 

[Bruce81]

Mike Mann and his company DomainMarket.com has dropped almost 50,000 domains in the past few months.


https://onlinedomain.com/2020/06/18/domain-name-news/mike-mann-drops-50000-domains/

Mike Mann must have changed his mind about some of the 50 000 domains.

I checked the status of some of the domain names. Some expired and were reregistered. Others are yet to be acquired.

Take the case of southky.com for example. Even though it is still on the list of the domains he dropped, it was updated during the redemption period.

Here is the Whois information:

Domain: southky.com

Registrar: eNom, LLC

Registered On: 2012-04-23

Expires On: 2020-04-23

Updated On: 2020-06-05

Status: redemptionPeriod

Name Servers:

dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com

 

[werejack]

Uber is a dictionary term, one of a kind with super, hyper, ultra, mega and so on

Agreed but if I may add that a factòr in UDRP cases is whether or not a domain was registered in bad faith (in this case I mean trying to profit/capitalize knowing the act is wrong but pretending to have had sincere intentions not limited to cybersquatting) e.g uber is not a word that was/is used in day-to-day life until made popular by the ride app. Another result of the business/app is the increased search volume for the word and the brand awareness so one would register uber----.com and benefit from existing search volume, brand awareness. Similar case with TESLA, the name of the inventor but company is more popular. APPLE, AMAZON etc as well.

But of course, this is my opinion.

 

[maxjohan]

Nice, focus quality, not quantity. Agree here.

Samer

Like Rick Schwartz says. Sniper approach, not shotgun approach.

 

[dombastic]

uber is not a word that was/is used in day-to-day life until made popular by the ride app

English is NOT the only language in the world. Some people speak also other languages.

"über" is "over" in German and is used as frequently as over.
"über-" is a prefix in German meaning "over"- (e.g. overtime), "super-" (e.g. superman), "hyper-" (e.g. hyperthermy) or "ultra-".

Both are and were frequently used in German speaking countries long before your app existed.

 

[jim h]

The fact is bad domain names are worthless.

 

[otismo]

4 - 4 letters

468 - 5 letters

1618 - 6 letters

2291 - 7 letters

2892 - 8 letters

less than ten percent of the drop -

guess it is safe to assume Mr. Mann likes his shorter names...

 

[werejack]

English is NOT the only language in the world. Some people speak also other languages.

Noted. I don't think I said english is the only language in the world.

Both are and were frequently used in German speaking countries long before your app existed

Thank you for that clarification and apologies as i now see my post didn't state the exception of Germany. But the point I was trying to make was that when it comes to trademark infringement being a generic term is not adequate defence to register a domain as the commercial use, brand awareness, internet search volume before and after that business spent time and money building a presence online can be a factor. I admit me stating that uber was not used in day-to-day communication did not state German as an exception was incorrect but in relation to my point, the SCALE at which the term was being used online before uber app spent millions on marketing significantly increased online searches and brand awareness for the word.

 

[Recons.Com]

4 - 4 letters

468 - 5 letters

1618 - 6 letters

2291 - 7 letters

2892 - 8 letters

less than ten percent of the drop -

guess it is safe to assume Mr. Mann likes his shorter names...

Shorter is rarer normally too. What are his holdings of that length in total? I am guessing, not more than 20%.

 

[OnlineDomainCom]

I added 2 lists of available or very soon to be available domains:
https://onlinedomain.com/2020/06/24/domain-name-news/mike-mann-2-lists-of-28923-available-domains/

 

[Bruce81]

I added 2 lists of available or very soon to be available domains:
https://onlinedomain.com/2020/06/24/domain-name-news/mike-mann-2-lists-of-28923-available-domains/

I am grateful.

 

[DomainBoxio]

I wonder what his bulk discounts are like on renewals??

 

[AdriaanB]

I went through most domains on the list and I want to congratulate Mike Mann on dramatically increasing his profitability in the next couple of years.

 

[OnlineDomainCom]

Saving a couple of cents maybe?
Most domainers get a price close to $8.15 or $8.10 for .com.

I wonder what his bulk discounts are like on renewals??

 

[DomainBoxio]

Saving a couple of cents maybe?
Most domainers get a price close to $8.15 or $8.10 for .com.

He's out-registered the majority of registrars, single-handedly...on the other hand, a few cents per domain is probably not the biggest concern, considering the sales reported.

 

[unmark]

For Mike Mann's 300,000 remaining domains, 1 cent that Mike can save per domain per year for renewing becomes $3K saved money. I think in Mike's case, every cent in renewing counts.

He's out-registered the majority of registrars, single-handedly...on the other hand, a few cents per domain is probably not the biggest concern, considering the sales reported.

 

[Pazu]

I added 2 lists of available or very soon to be available domains:
https://onlinedomain.com/2020/06/24/domain-name-news/mike-mann-2-lists-of-28923-available-domains/

I went through the whole list before noticing this. Would have saved me some time if I had. Thanks for the info. I got about 10 names I consider worthwhile.

Some takeaways...
1) Many names on the original list have already been drop caught or registered on Sav.com. These higher quality names should have been mostly kept, imo, but that’s only less than 1% of them and he was looking at metrics we don’t have, such as traffic and lack of past offers.
2) More than that have dropped and are available but these are obviously not as good as those grabbed in my first takeaway.
3) This was a good long-term decision by Mike to drop these names. Holding the vast majority of these was a losing proposition and I, like many others, can't understand his thinking in the first place. However, they could have been worse with most of them being real words and he apparently even dropped a few LLLL.
4) He dropped some decent Spanish names, if one can consider Spanish names good (I don't really). I'm just impressed by his Spanish ability, though there are many typos.
5) Some of these names are expiring in October or later, so I don't see why they made it on this list.
6) I expect he will keep dropping names over the next 8 months to slim down his portfolio further.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

In case people did not see it, @OnlineDomainCom has published a long post from @Mike Mann which, while not directly explaining the drops, does give his view of the state of the domain world and advice for domain success as he sees it. You can read the full post here. It includes this quote. He is not a fan or hand registrations or extensions other than .com:

"There over 100 million .Com already registered. There is no point in registering more unless you know something I don’t know. The object is to buy the best ones that exist already at the lowest prices possible, and sell them at the highest."​

Thanks for covering this so well, @OnlineDomainCom.

Bob

 

[Ace3coiner]

See the full list here in .txt...:

 

[dombastic]

the SCALE at which the term was being used online before uber app spent millions on marketing significantly increased online searches and brand awareness for the word.

The "scale" is irrelevant.

Less people speak German than English, so "über" is used less than "over".
But relatively (per million of speakers) it is even used more in German.

And it is was also in the Webster Dictionary (of the English Language) long BEFORE that company existed.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/über-

 

[Recons.Com]

In case people did not see it, @OnlineDomainCom has published a long post from @Mike Mann which, while not directly explaining the drops, does give his view of the state of the domain world and advice for domain success as he sees it. You can read the full post here. It includes this quote. He is not a fan or hand registrations or extensions other than .com:

"There over 100 million .Com already registered. There is no point in registering more unless you know something I don’t know. The object is to buy the best ones that exist already at the lowest prices possible, and sell them at the highest."​

Thanks for covering this so well, @OnlineDomainCom.

Bob

How can he be not a fan of hand regs if a big chunk of his 300k names are hand regs? The guy literally boasts when he sells saying "bought for $8, selling for $8000".

 

[werejack]

The "scale" is irrelevant.

Less people speak German than English, so "über" is used less than "over".
But relatively (per million of speakers) it is even used more in German.

My post had not stated the exception of Germany useing the word uber in day to day communucation and it was pointed out and in a post that followed I acknowleged and apologized for that and clarified over my statement regarding scale at which term is used before and after a business commercially markets and promotes.

 

[dombastic]

My post had not stated the exception of Germany using the word uber in day to day communucation and it was pointed out and in a post that followed I acknowleged and apologized for that and clarified over my statement regarding scale at which term is used before and after a business commercially markets and promotes.

Still irrelevant.

It is a basic word in the German language.
German is spoken in Germany (80 millions), Austria and Switzerland.
Your company took this word from the German language or Webster dictionary (of English language). Your company has NOT created this word.

I don't think I said english is the only language in the world.

You act like it would be.

Is this site offering the same service as your company?

Then why shouldn't they be allowed to use a generic German word?

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Anyone sell any domains they picked up from Mike’s drop?

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

Anyone sell any domains they picked up from Mike’s drop?

was there an official list that could be viewed online? If there was I didn't know. I probably grabbed some and didn't know it.

 

[frank-germany]

My post had not stated the exception of Germany useing the word uber in day to day communucation and it was pointed out and in a post that followed I acknowleged and apologized for that and clarified over my statement regarding scale at which term is used before and after a business commercially markets and promotes.

you see
NOBODY

in Germany ever uses the word
"uber"

the German word is
"über"